Growth in online degree programs stabilizes University of Maine System enrollment
PRESQUE ISLE – The University of Maine at Presque Isle has defied national enrollment trends and is meeting the needs of more working Mainers and their employers by rapidly expanding affordable, flexible online degree programs. At a University of Maine System Board of Trustees meeting today in Presque Isle, UMPI President Ray Rice announced that the rural public university’s enrollment had increased 67% over the past five years to 1,509 students, and is up nearly 20% just from last fall. That growth has been largely driven by UMPI’s YourPace online competency-based degrees, which allow students to advance on their own
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